I’m suggesting to sell the bass you feel like you don’t want anymore and if you find a good deal on one that you want that you create a ceiling mount for it! 
I could technically do that. Unfortunately, this is a loft, with a relatively low ceiling. You care to try out how hard mahogany is against your skull? 
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In my mind it was hanging so low you would rather bruise your knee / would clearly see it in the way but after all it’s probably no different than having an instrument stand on the floor in front of the wall taking up space.
Not as aesthetically pleasing but handy is an instrument stand for multiple instruments so you can just put them in line on it.
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My cats are probably more physically active than yours. 
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Okay - you won. Ceiling mount is not practical.
The multi instrument stand is still viable though I think. I already admitted that is not very aesthatically pleasing - just handy.
Well my cats like to scratch the tapestry from the wall so I think a wall mount might be dangerous for me. One of them likes to scratch gigbags (every kind of bag and backpack really) they so far didn’t touch any of the bass guitars.
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No further questions, Your Honour.
My youngest cat once chased a flying object – and knocked over the neighbour’s SUV.
Okay, I’m lying.
It was the neighbour’s bicycle. She probably wouldn’t even notice a bass guitar in a stand.
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How about 4 bass guitars in a stand?
Just kidding. Alright. I drop it 
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NOOOOOOoooooooo… you just bought it!
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But I have no interest in a 5-string or fretless (yet) 
help
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I meant the ESP.
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No. I just dropped the topic. My beloved ESP is fine
gently strokes the ESP
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Oh yes it can growl. Also, one of the EQ switch presets boosts mids.
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… if you want to keep your Harley Benton but don’t really play it, why don’t you just keep it stored somewhere in a gig bag ? I guess it does not have to be on the wall like the instruments you always use ? and it would be a way to keep the 4 basses 
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There’s no shame in coming to the realization that you simply don’t like 5-strings. I bought one, gave it a chance for a couple months, and decided exactly that myself.
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That feels… just wrong.
It would reduce the bass to an item in a collection, rather than a device to make music. I would also have to take it out of the gig bag to look at it, or it would be further reduced to ballast…
It doesn’t feel right.
Also, my chances of ever playing it even marginally proficiently are close to zero. Playing an E-major triad on the A-and D-string requires some microshifting already - even though I have, by now, realised quite a bit of additional spread, the pinky is just too short to make it to the 9th fret. And on a fretted bass, you have a wee bit of leeway – I can use my index bang on top of fret 6, and then put the pinky down halfway between fret 8 and fret 9. Try that on a fretless and the audience will gasp in sheer agony over me being a quarter tone flat…
So what I’m going to do is finish B2B on one bass, and then decide if I’m going to get a somewhat shorter-scale fretless, or a full scale 4 string.
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Yeah, that’s probably the slap position, right?
Maaaaan, I ha-- kinda dislike slapping.
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No, for slapping you scoop the mids, not boost.
It’s the “Solo” position.
I made this post before I sold mine, explains the presets with illustrations from Yamaha.
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I am now, as of 20 mins ago, the owner of two bass guitars.
The Harley-Benton is now in larger hands than mine…
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Well technically three - you are just not in posession of the third one yet 
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True.
Funny detail: this bass, for which I paid 150 euros new, covers the cost of the TRBX304, which is newer than the HB was.
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